This week’s tune is a hornpipe I learned a while ago and relearned this week, called Road to Eyries. Hornpipes are some of my favorite types of tunes to play because they always sound so joyful and upbeat. I hope you like my version: Join me next week for tune #21 from A Tune A Week. … More Road to Eyries: Tune 20 of 52
When I first started playing fiddle many years ago, my aunt sent me a poem by Irish poet, William Butler Yeats called The Fiddler of Dooney. I loved it because it is about a fiddler, because an Irish poet wrote it, and heck, because it rhymed and who doesn’t love that? I memorized the poem … More And dance like a wave of the sea…
If you don’t own Live at Mona’s, read no further and go buy the album. If you already own the album, then you know who Patrick Ourceau is. And you also know that this Saturday there is no place else you should be but in Montpelier to watch him play. Patrick is a well-known and … More Patrick Ourceau, Live in Montpelier
